Hi. I’m professor at FSCJ and I’d like to connect mechatronic kit to the UR. I have RS 232 cable that it’s stablish connection in the mechatronic kit and I need to know how to connect the other side of it of the I/O of the UR
As far as I know, there is no “direct” way to use RS232 with the UR controller.
You’d have to go the long way of using an RS232 to USB Serial and then plug it into a USB in the controller. Then you must write a program in the Linux system (Python) running PolyScope to read communicate with the RS232 device, and then exchange your data through RTDE to the robot system.
Hi,
I did something similar with a UR10e and a customer laser machine.
We used a RS-232 to Ethernet Tcp converter. (Amazon.com: SOLLAE SYSTEMS Industrial Serial to Ethernet Converter, RS232, TCP, UDP, Device Server, CSE-H53N : Electronics)
We then use socket tcp with the UR to read and write to the machine.
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